\monster{The Bagheera: The Lady or the Tiger}
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\quot{``You can fool everybody, but landie. Dearie me, you can't fool a cat. They seem to know who's not right.''}

\desc{The origins of the Bagheera are confused. The legends say that the Bagheera were formed when a Bengali priestess refused to abandon her gods and goddesses when the Mughals took control of the province and banned idolatry, calling upon Shiva for a mighty boon. And yet the legends \emph{also} say that the Bagheera were formed first by a jaguar warrior pledged to Huitzilopochtli fighting against Cortez, an event which would necessarily push the formation of the line over fifty years back. When consulted on the subject directly, the Stellar Oracles enigmatically state that both stories are true. Regardless, once infected a Bagheera is a creature of Death and finds that their mere presence alarms and angers animals of all types, especially cats.}

\desc{A Bagheera's War Form is that of great and ghostly cat. Perhaps a tiger, jaguar, or leopard. Most Bagheera do not have the ability to transform into a remotely reasonably sized cat that can pass as something ``not terrifying.'' It has been suggested that the beast inside a Bagheera isn't really an animal at all, since they seem to show less than no affinity for the mundane beasts they appear as -- a marked departure from other Lycanthropes.}

\noindent \desc{A Bagheera has an Orphic power source and a Lunar power schedule.}

\desc{\begin{list}{}{\itemspace}
    \item \ability{Bagheera Starting Disciplines}
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    \item - Core Discipline: Celerity -
\end{list}
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    \item Quickness (Basic Celerity)
    \item Nimble Feet (Basic Celerity)
\end{list}

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    \item
    \item - Basic Disciplines -
\end{list}
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    \item Vigor (Basic Potence)
    \item Hide From Notice (Basic Obfuscate)
    \item Touch of Darkness (Basic Lure of Destruction)
    \item Revive the Flesh (Basic Fortitude)
\end{list}

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    \item
    \item - Advanced Disciplines -
\end{list}
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    \item War Form (Celerity / Potence Devotion)
    \item Alacrity (Advanced Celerity)
\end{list}}

\inspiration{Cat People, The Cat and the Canary, Geobreeders}